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"Mr President, many of us have opposed the very idea of a European External Action Service. It is one of the baleful consequences of the Lisbon Treaty and another major step in the direction of European political integration which, frankly, our people do not want.
However, I – like the British Foreign Secretary – now recognise the existence of the EAS as a fact and we need to make the best of it. I would therefore ask the High Representative to give the following guarantees in relation to the EAS – firstly, that it will add no additional cost to EU or national budgets; secondly, that it will do nothing that will interfere in or diminish the role of national diplomatic representation, in particular, that of the United Kingdom; thirdly, that it will not become yet another opaque bureaucratic apparatus and, fourthly, that it will provide for proper oversight by both national parliaments and this Parliament.
In this regard, may I say that, given her responsibilities for EU defence policy and given the fact that the WEU Assembly is now being dissolved – the one forum where national parliamentarians had oversight of European activities in the defence field – and given the fact that military forces are, and remain, under national control, will the High Representative take concrete steps to ensure that national parliaments indeed have a role in relation to the EAS?"@en1
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